Awesome DIY Laser Engraver

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I designed this because I thought it would be a lot of fun to have around, and who doesn’t want a laser!? It is built from old Monoprice Maker Select parts, which was the constraint on size. But it is meant to be completely scalable. If you wanted to make it 4’ by 4’ then if you change the size of the bearings and adjust holes that should be entirely plausible (it would lack strength though using unsupported rods but you get my point). The laser engraving unit is 2.5 watts and works really well as an engraver. With enough passes it will cut balsa wood, just not incredibly effectively as it took me about 25 passes to go through 6mm balsa wood. So lets jump into it! Video Link: https://youtu.be/cbvsgfQPY7Y Video Link to the Update: https://youtu.be/W83B7WeUT2Q Feel free to subscribe and let me know what you think of the laser. Planning some follow up videos if it is popular enough. I will be doing a few more videos on this unit as it has been pretty popular already. Plasma/router are in the works. Hoping to cut my teeth on build logs with this one to kind of practice and get it down.